Speaker of Uganda’s Parliament Rebecca Kadaga has ruled that no select Committee will be constituted to investigate how the Bemanya Twebaze, the Administrator of heavily indebted Uganda Telecom Limited (UTL) is running the affairs of the company. MPs last week requested for investigations into UTL but the speaker pushed her
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Uganda Telecom Ltd (UTL) Administrator, Bemanya Twebaze has detailed the state of affairs at Uganda’s oldest telecom firm, revealing that the company is currently indebted to the tune of Shs530bn. Uganda Telecom Limited (UTL) is an insolvent company whose shareholders are Ucom, a Libyan Government entity and Government of
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Uganda Telecom administrator, Bemanya Twebaze has said that auditing of the company's operations can only happen at the end of his administration. Twebaze (in featured photo) denied that he had blocked any audit, but said that it was not the right time for government to carry out an audit. "Final
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Efforts by Uganda Government to revamp the struggling Uganda Telecom Ltd (UTL) have hit another setback after Minister of State in charge of Investments, Evenly Anite admitting that Government has lost control over Uganda’s oldest telecom firm. Making the shocking confession during today’s plenary sitting, Anite who looked shocked herself
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Safaricom has announced the availability of its “Reverse Call” feature enabling its more than 31 million customers to pay for calls for loved ones. The service enables a caller to transfer the cost of a call to the receiver by adding ‘#’ before the number they are calling. For instance,
Read MoreThe Blockchain Association of Uganda and Crypto Savannah, in partnership with The Innovation Village are seeking for innovators with a passion for developing sustainable digital solutions leveraging technologies in Blockchain, Big Data Analytics, Artificial Intelligence (A.I), Robotics and Drones to solve pressing challenges across their communities and priority sectors such
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When the NRM government came to power in 1986, the concept of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) was unfamiliar in Uganda. At the time, only the Ministry of Finance and Makerere University boasted a mini-computer. This was a class of computers that had been designed in the 1960s and had
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A US move to put Huawei on a trade blacklist "sets a dangerous precedent" that will harm billions of consumers, the firm's top legal officer said. Speaking at a press conference, Song Liuping (in featured photo) said the trade ban would also "directly harm" American companies and affect jobs. Huawei
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As government moves to embark fully on electronic procurement process for suppliers and service providers, the risk to the process according to Minister of State for Works and transport Gen. Edward Katumba Wamala is electronic waste management aimed at protecting the environment, which the minister says must be elaborated to
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Google's decision to withhold its Android software from Huawei is being seen as the beginning of a technology cold war that could compel African countries including Uganda - in the future - to choose between US and Chinese technology, analysts have told the BBC. Most Africans connecting to the internet
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